Base Salary
$208k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical vision, architectural direction, best practices, and quality standards for the Channels division.
- Lead large, ambiguous, cross-team projects from problem framing and design through implementation, rollout, and operational support.
- Help teams evolve channel stacks and foundational primitives for sophisticated marketing use cases.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, architecture reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
- Improve observability, error handling, incremental rollouts, reliability, and incident reduction across dashboard and delivery layers.
- Design and build foundational systems, frameworks, platforms, and code-generation tooling.
- Evolve shared message-editor frameworks and dashboard capabilities, including real-time feedback and channel-specific settings.
- Migrate legacy front-end logic to modern React-based systems.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful technical leadership across multiple teams or complex product systems.
- Experience with Ruby on Rails and proficiency in TypeScript and React.
- Experience designing and shipping foundational infrastructure, frameworks, libraries, or platform services used by other engineers.
- Strong architectural judgment and the ability to make technical decisions for a maturing product suite.
- Effective communication, mentoring, and the ability to connect technical debt to business risk.
- Track record of identifying high-leverage work, building consensus, and completing ambiguous projects with minimal direction.
- Bonus: experience with shared component libraries or design system primitives.
- Bonus: experience with real-time systems or event-driven architectures for message orchestration.
- Bonus: experience with developer experience tooling such as code generation, scaffolding, or CI/CD for large-scale codebases.
- Bonus: experience scaling a product from early stage to enterprise scale while maintaining developer velocity.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Competitive compensation that may include equity and restricted stock units (RSUs).
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
- Fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave.
- Professional development, formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
- Curated in-office employee experience.
- Volunteer Week and donation matching.
- Employee Resource Groups.
Tech Stack
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About Braze
Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging.™ Braze allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of data from any source, so they can creatively engage with customers in real time, across channels from one platform. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered experimentation and optimization, Braze enables companies to build and maintain absolutely engaging relationships with their customers that foster growth and loyalty. The company has been recognized as a 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Companies to Work For, 2024 Best Small & Medium Workplaces in Europe by Great Place to Work®, 2024 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women™ by Great Place to Work® and was named a Leader by Gartner® in the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Multichannel Marketing Hubs and a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q3 2024. Braze is headquartered in New York with 15 offices across AMER, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC. Learn more at braze.com.